Appearance On The Colbert Report
Christopher Noxon appeared on The Colbert Report on June 29, 2006. On the show, Noxon told the story of how he met his wife. Apparently they met while playing kickball (Colbert: You were both in eighth grade? Noxon: No, mid-twenties). He later proposed to her on the same field. He put the ring inside of a kickball and then reinflated it and gave it to her. He also gave her a knife, so that she could cut it open and get the ring out. Unfortunately, there was a Little League team nearby, and when they saw him with the knife, they started yelling "Don't kill her!" They got married and have three children.
Later, Colbert brought out a box of cupcakes, but Noxon turned them down, joking, "I'm gonna have it after, 'cause I don't wanna muss up my visage."
Colbert also brought up the idea that Noxon was very reluctant to qualify the rejuvenile movement as specifically a good thing or a bad thing. Noxon clarified: being childlike can be good, but being childish isn't. "There's a big difference between childish and childlike. And childish is sort of impatient and silly and ridiculous and temper tantrums and brat behavior, and childlike is open and creative and flexible."
Read more about this topic: Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, And The Reinvention Of The American Grown-up
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